I Hope It Lands

I Hope It Lands is an album by the American band Thinking Fellers [Union Local 282]. It was released in 1996 through Communion Records.
Music journalist Andrew Earles described the music as "experimental" and "insane", and said that it incorporates elements of "left-field pop".

Critical reception

The Orlando Sentinel called the album "another mad collection of brief sound collages, twisted pop tunes and fractured chunks of art-rock." The Santa Fe New Mexican concluded that "their songs are like singing telegrams from the distant cosmic spring that flows down to both Sonic Youth and Captain Beefheart." Trouser Press declared that "the band has the miraculous group-mind of a flock of birds, and the record flows like nothing they’ve ever done before—even the little noise-twiddles are part of the record’s grand mid-air arc."
Brian Way of AllMusic: "Although uneven in spots, I Hope It Lands ranks among the Thinking Fellers' finest. And if it didn't exactly make the band a household name, it surely pleased the band's core constituency of Bay Area and college-circuit geekrockers. And for those it didn't please, the band titled an agitated off-key instrumental just for them: 'The Rampaging Fuckers of Anything on the Crazy Shitting Planet of the Vomit Atmosphere.'" In the 2014 reference book Gimme Indie Rock, music journalist Andrew Earles wrote that the album was "one that was among the most rewarding options for indie and underground devotees looking to expand their listening pallettes."

Personnel

;Thinking Fellers Union Local 282

Mark Davies – vocals, guitar, banjo
Anne Eickelberg – vocals, bass guitar, piano
Brian Hageman – vocals, guitar, mandolin, tape
Jay Paget – drums, percussion, keyboards
Hugh Swarts – vocals, guitar

;Production and additional personnel

Gibbs Chapman – production, recording and reproduction|recording]
Margaret Murray – design
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 – production, recording